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Just wait until ai invents its own npm that people are no longer able to understand. Good luck with that.
Some say that node_modules directory is the heaviest object in the universe. All we know it's called the Node JS.
I'm afraid if i run a 'rm -rf' command i might take out the entire electrical grid!
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what will happen to their wages when all white-collar workers take up that career?
They can go back to work in the farms, or weave baskets, or pottery... Still not good? Ok, maybe this is too radical but hear me out: how about we take this incredible increase in productivity as an opportunity to start paving the way for a true post-scarcity future that can benefit most people, eliminate intellectual property and take everything produced by robots to fund UBI, instead of worrying about our cushy job…
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I mean, yes, but also management is a wayyy less skilled job that’s far easier to automate. That goes away shortly after we get a competent AI engineer. Business analysts are also incredibly vulnerable - why have a middle man if the machine understands your requirements in English/French/whatever?
> I mean, yes, but also management is a wayyy less skilled job that’s far easier to automate. This is a pretty wild take. The job that is 99% dealing with human interactions is easier to automate than the job where you make a computer do what you want?
These transformer models are much better at soft skills than hard skills.
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Beyond the snark, this is basically it. It's the same reason the Roman Empire, despite all its technological prowess, never tried hard to automate relatively low-hanging-fruit tasks: because slaves were cheap, plentiful, and more flexible ("reprogrammable") than anything mechanical could ever be. If it costs $1m p/y to run a machine that cooks burgers and fries, or $30k for an employee who can do that _and_ cover som…
> If a machine costs 500k p/y Do you mean an AI programmer would cost $500k per year? If so I think you greatly overestimate the cost. Recently I did some text processing with GPT-4 turbo (128k context) and I reached the daily limit of 5 million tokens. IIRC it cost me around $70 bucks for the day. I think $70 is the hourly rate of a SE with $150k salary working 40 hours per week. Note that we are at early stages wit…
I suspect you underestimate it. Raw engine cost is one thing; what businesses downstream will actually pay, is another. Look at AWS: a lot of businesses don't even touch it directly, their vendor ISPs do. If "AIDev" really becomes a thing, businesses will buy specialized services (e.g. "ApiBuilder.io", "YAMLCrusher.io", etc etc), which will obviously command a premium on top of top-tier, 5-9s guaranteed, "raw" ml engines.
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You're already "inside". The danger with automation is that it can pull up the ladder of developing junior talent on nuts-and-bolts, especially if these platforms aren't accessible to students and small-time developers.
Architecture doesn't matter anymore. I can have the AI do general purpose computing. Who cares if its slow? Integration work between two systems? Why bother writing APIs when my robot can spawn 1000 tabs and do manual data entry. Eventually they can just speak English to each other
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what will happen to their wages when all white-collar workers take up that career?
They can go back to work in the farms, or weave baskets, or pottery... Still not good? Ok, maybe this is too radical but hear me out: how about we take this incredible increase in productivity as an opportunity to start paving the way for a true post-scarcity future that can benefit most people, eliminate intellectual property and take everything produced by robots to fund UBI, instead of worrying about our cushy job…
As an open source contributor not only did you give your software away for free but you also trained the AI robots who will take away your day job?
Maybe I'm naive, but I just don't feel threatened by this at all. As a software engineer, I'd love to have an AI engineer automate the boring stuff so I can work on higher-level architecture concerns.
As a software engineer, no, there's no reason to be worried. But what if you were a wordpress developer where a big chunk of your work can be automated?